And Ahab
<0256>

had seventy
<07657>

sons
<01121>

in Samaria
<08111>_.

And Jehu
<03058>

wrote
<03789> (8799)

letters
<05612>_,

and sent
<07971> (8799)

to Samaria
<08111>_,

unto the rulers
<08269>

of Jezreel
<03157>_,

to the elders
<02205>_,

and to them that brought up
<0539> (8802)

Ahab's
<0256>

[children], saying
<0559> (8800)_,

Now as soon as this letter
<05612>

cometh
<0935> (8800)

to you, seeing your master's
<0113>

sons
<01121>

[are] with you, and [there are] with you chariots
<07393>

and horses
<05483>_,

a fenced
<04013>

city
<05892>

also, and armour
<05402>_;

Then he wrote
<03789> (8799)

a letter
<05612>

the second time
<08145>

to them, saying
<0559> (8800)_,

If ye [be] mine, and [if] ye will hearken
<08085> (8802)

unto my voice
<06963>_,

take
<03947> (8798)

ye the heads
<07218>

of the men
<0582>

your master's
<0113>

sons
<01121>_,

and come
<0935> (8798)

to me to Jezreel
<03157>

by to morrow
<04279>

this time
<06256>_.

Now the king's
<04428>

sons
<01121>_,

[being] seventy
<07657>

persons
<0376>_,

[were] with the great men
<01419>

of the city
<05892>_,

which brought them up
<01431> (8764)_.

And it came to pass, when the letter
<05612>

came
<0935> (8800)

to them, that they took
<03947> (8799)

the king's
<04428>

sons
<01121>_,

and slew
<07819> (8799)

seventy
<07657>

persons
<0376>_,

and put
<07760> (8799)

their heads
<07218>

in baskets
<01731>_,

and sent
<07971> (8799)

him [them] to Jezreel
<03157>_.